High Risk Vulnerability in Samba on the BlackBerry PlayBook 

23 February 2012

Andy Davis of NGS Secure has discovered a high risk vulnerability in the Samba service running on the BlackBerry PlayBook  

Impact: Remote Code Execution

Versions affected:

BlackBerry Tablet OS prior to v2.0.0.7971

More details about this vulnerability and how to obtain software updates can be found here:
https://btsc.webapps.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB29565

NGS Secure Research
https://www.ngssecure.com